In My Mailbox! ~ The Female Spectator Vol. 16, No. 1 ~ Chawton House Library

The Female Spectator, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 2012) , the newsletter of the Chawton House Library is out! Here are the contents to whet your appetite:     “Some Treasures in the Chawton House Library Collection” – by Margaret S. Yoon, about her “discovery” at the CHL of two very important books for her studies.  “The [...]

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An Interview and Book Giveaway! ~ Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment by Elsa Solender

We welcome today Elsa Solender, former JASNA president, now author of Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment. The book is currently available as a kindle ebook, and I heartily recommend that you download it immediately from Amazon.com– if you have no kindle, you can add a free kindle app to your computer and various i-products, and [...]

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All I Want for Christmas ~ Anything Jane Austen !

Don’t forget to comment on the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree post below to be eligible to win the JASNA-Wisconsin 2012 Jane Austen Calendar! ********************** For the next seven days I will post a daily want of Austen-related items that I think everyone should ask for this Christmas – [some of these things I already have, some [...]

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Book Alert! ~ Wooing Mr. Wickham

The title of the second book in the Chawton House Library / Honno Press Jane Austen Short Story Award has been announced – the anthology will be released November 17, 2011.  Title?  Wooing Mr. Wickham.  [alas! - no cover image yet] This year’s collection, which follows on from the huge success of the inaugural award set up [...]

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Hot off the Presses! ~ ‘Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine’ and ‘The Female Spectator’

Will await this showing up in my mailbox [though see the publisher's note about weather-induced delivery delays] -  here is the latest table of contents from Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, the January/February 2011 issue No. 49:  Sense & Sensibility at 200 ~  Leading writers look at the history, relevance, importance and morality of Jane Austen’s [...]

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The Chawton House Library Short Story Competition

Writer alert:  Get your pens mended!  As last year with the short story compilation Dancing with Mr. Darcy, The Chawton House Library has announced another Jane Austen short story competition.  Please visit their website for details. [Image from zazzle.com]

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All Things Austen ~ a Web Round-up!

I have been out-of-town, visiting the Big Apple and the Austen exhibit at the Morgan Library – this was fabulous! -  I will report on it in a later post, but for now, there is much to make note of in the ever-busy world of Jane Austen, so will summarize as best I can – you [...]

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Book Giveaway! ~ ‘Dancing with Mr. Darcy’

JASNA-Vermont will be giving away a copy of Dancing with Mr. Darcy, the short story anthology from Chawton House Library, published by Honno Press ~ please post a comment by Saturday November 14, 2009 to qualify.  Author Lane Ashfeldt will send the book to the winner directly ~  see the following posts to comment: Book Review [...]

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‘Dancing with Mr. Darcy’ ~ a Book Review & Book Giveaway!

Dancing with Mr Darcy: Stories inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library Selected and introduced by Sarah Waters Honno Modern Fiction, 2009 ISBN:  978-1-906784-08-9 UK  £7.99 [paperback] [I made mention of this book in another post in which Lane Ashfeldt, author of one of the short stories in this anthology [titled Snowmelt ] did [...]

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News from Chawton House Library and “The Female Spectator” ~

My mailbox gives such pleasure most days! – I have been away for the past week, but before leaving I received the latest issue of The Female Spectator [Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 2009], published by the Chawton House Library and thus have a few things of interest to share with you…. 1.  “Reprinting the [...]

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